Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World by Bruce Philp
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Consumer Republic's message begins with this single, inarguable truth: brands make corporations accountable. Expensive to create, essential to making money, and more public than anything else a corporation has or does, a brand is an enormously valuable and fragile asset to them. And we consumers have th ...Show more
The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust by Elisabeth Wynhausen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Elisabeth Wynhausen was working at her desk in the newsroom of "The Australian", writing a story about people being given the pink slip, when she was given a pink slip of her own. 'The Short Goodbye' tells the story of the people who were crunched in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: people like her, wh ...Show more
The Checklist Manifesto - How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Category: Business & Economics
This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking "New York Times" journal ...Show more
In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took it Down by Stanley Reed
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Category: Business & Economics | Series: Bloomberg
The truth behind the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history In 2005, fifteen workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. Now, in 2010, eleven BP workers were killed in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo blowout. What's ...Show more
Man Bites Murdoch by Bruce Guthrie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. His CV boasts editorships of The Age, The Sunday ...Show more
A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Wall Street to the World Bank by James D. Wolfensohn
$50.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
James D. Wolfensohn is one of the business world's most successful and unconventional figures - an expat Aussie and former World Bank President who has gone on to channel his personal success into the struggle against poverty. In this illuminating autobiography, co-written with award-winning journalist ...Show more
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Sequel to the international bestseller "Freakonomics", Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's "Superfreakonomics" is an irresistible look at the counterintuitive science of everyday life. The Freakquel is here. In "Superfreakonomics" Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover ...Show more
The Big Fella: The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton by Robert Macklin, Peter Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. This is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world.
The Happy Economist: Happiness for the hard-headed by Ross Gittins
$26.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success. Distilling the practical wisdom from all the r ...Show more
Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the ...Show more